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Shortly before World War I, Meidner was active in a circle of Berlin artists called Die Pathetiker (The Sorrowful Ones), who were early practitioners of what later came to be known as expressionism…
Albatros, a journal of literature and graphic art, debuted in Warsaw in 1922 and published its final two issues in Berlin. The journal was edited by the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and…
Krakauer’s work, mostly chalk and charcoal drawings on paper, was largely devoted to expressionist landscapes of Jerusalem and its environs. His unique style was characterized by short strokes, often…
The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…
Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…
“Insist on yourself . . .” is from the series Great Ideas of Western Man, an innovative advertising campaign by the Container Corporation of America, which ran from 1950 to 1975. Its mission was to…
The pen-on-paper Tu tournes lentement, an example of surrealist automatic painting, depicts women and fragmented humanoid shapes in dance-like movement. It was drawn by Paul Păun during World War II…
In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
This expressionist self-portrait dates from the earliest period of Bloom’s career. He and his friend Jack Levine were the beneficiaries of a Harvard professor and patron of the arts, who provided them…
